Structure
Story
The building blocks.
Climax
The moment of highest intensity and interest. The climax is usually also the crisis or turning
point of the fortunes of the protagonists, the fortunes of the antagonists, the peak of the rising
action.
Conflict
The struggle between opposing forces that determines the action.
Story conflict can pit character against nature (i.e. storms at sea), character against
another character (protagonist versus antagonist) or character against himself.
Falling Action
The part of a dramatic plot that follows the climax or point of highest interest.
Rising Action
The part of a dramatic plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest
and power to the climax. It begins with an event that sets a conflict of opposing forces
into motion, and moves through complication towards the climax.
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